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Professor
Suhas Palshikar
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Department of Politics and Public Administration, University
of Pune,
Pune 411 007
Telephone Nos.
Department: 020-25690815
Residence: 020-25656995
Email: suhas@unipune.ernet.in |
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Suhas Palshikar is Co-Director of Lokniti and Professor in the department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Pune. He
taught at a degree college from 1978 to 1989, before he
joined the Dept of Politics and Public Administration,
University of Pune. He has been teaching courses on Political
Sociology, Indian Politics, Party System in India, Political
Economy of India and Political Process in Maharashtra.
He has served as Associate Director on the ICSSR project
on the Sixth Lok Sabha Elections in Maharashtra from 1980-81.
His research projects have included 'Politics of Marginalized
Groups: A Study of Aurangabad and Ahmednagar districts'
- a UGC granted project completed in 2000. In the year
1999-2000 Professor Palshikar and the Dept. of Politics
and Public Administration, University of Pune conducted
a survey of around 7000 households for a project on Pune
titled 'Pune: From City to Metropolis', under the Special
Assistance Programme. Professor Palshikar has been associated
with the CSDS since 1995. He has assisted in the study
of the Assembly Elections in Maharashtra in 1995 and has
served as the State co-ordinator for Maharashtra in the
National Election Studies in 1996, 1998 and 1999 organised
by Lokniti. He is currently the Joint coordinator in the
State of Democracy in the State of Democracy in South
Asia (SDSA) project.
Research interests:
Professor Palshikar works mainly on Political Processes
in India and Politics of Maharashtra. He is presently
engaged in researching Coalition Politics in Maharashtra,
as part of the project by UPIASI, Delhi, 2004-05.
Selected Publications:
Articles in Professional / Refereed journals
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Revisiting State Level Parties, Economic and
Political Weekly, Vol.34, Nos. 14 &15, 2004,
pp.1477-79.
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Shiv
Sena: Tiger with Many Faces?, Economic and
Political Weekly, Vol. 34, Nos. 14 &15, 2004,
pp.1497-1507.
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From
Hegemony to Convergence: Party System and Electoral
Politics in the Indian States, 1952-2002, (Yogendra
Yadav and Suhas Palshikar in Journal of Indian
School of Political Economy, Vol. 15, Nos. 1
& 2, 2003, pp.5-44. |
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Challenges
Before the Congress System, (co-authored with Rajeshwari
Deshpande), in Journal of Indian School of Political
Economy,Vol. 15, Nos. 1 & 2, 2003, pp. 97-122. |
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Triangular
Competition and Bipolar Politics in Maharashtra,
Economic and Political Weekly, March 30-
April 5, 2002, pp.1273-1280. |
Articles in Edited Volumes
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Whose
Democracy Are We Talking About? Hegemony and Democracy
in India, in Rajendra Vora and Suhas Palshikar (eds.),
Indian Democracy: Meanings and Practices, Sage,
New Delhi, 2004, pp.127-164. |
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The
Regional Parties and Democracy: Romantic Rendezvous
or Localized Legitimation? In Ajay K. `Mehra, D.D.
Khanna and Gert W. Kueck (eds.), Political Parties
and Party Systems, 2003, New Delhi, Sage. |
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Maharashtra:
Fragmented Marathas Retain Power, first author,
in Paul Wallace and Ramashray Roy (Eds.), India's
1999 Elections and 20th Century Poltics, New Delhi,
2003, Sage. |
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Politics
of India's Middle Classes, in Imtiaz Ahmad and Helmut
Reifeld (Eds.), Middle Class Values in India and
Western Europe, New Delhi, 2003, Social Science
Press. |
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Politics
of Locality, Community and Marginalization, (Rajendra
Vora and Suhas Palswhiakr) in Sujata Patel and Jim
Masselos (Eds.) Bombay and Mumbai: The City in Transition,
Delhi, 2003, OUP. |
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Gandhi
and Modernity, in S.N. Datye (ed.), Rethinking Mahatma
Gandhi, Delhi, 2000, Kalinga; pp.165-176. |
Authored Books
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Samkalin
Bharatiya Rajkaran (Marathi), Pratima Prakashan,
Pune, 2004 |
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Edited Books
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Indian
Democracy: Meanings and Practices, Sage, New Delhi,
2004 (co-edited with Rajendra Vora) |
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Maharashtrache
Rajakaran (Marathi), Pratima Prakashan, Pune, 2004,
(co-edited with Nitin Birmal) |
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Monographs, Reports and Occasional Papers
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Federalism
in India: Institutional Framework and the Political
Context, in Continuing Dialogues towards Constitutional
Reforms in Indonesia, Report of a conference held
in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 2001, International
IDEA, 2002, Stockholm. |
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Book Reviews
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India
and China: Comparative Perspectives, (Review of
the book edited by G. P. Dedshpande and Alka Acharya)
Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 37, no.
51, Dec. 21, 2002, pp. 5099-5102. |
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Review
of Surinder Jodhka (ed.), Community and Identities,
Journal Of Indian School of Political Economy,
Jan.- March, 2002, pp.189-192. |
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Review
of Nalini Rajan's book in Contributions to Indian
Sociology |
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Professor Palshikar has written over twenty articles in
Marathi for journals and magazines, besides contributing
to newspapers like Sakal, Maharashtra Times and Lok Satta.
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